Hittite archives

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The Hittite archives are collections of clay tablets preserving administrative, legal, religious, and diplomatic texts from the Hittite Empire, written in cuneiform and other contemporary scripts.

All labels observed (11)

How this entity was disambiguated

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Predicate Object
instanceOf ancient text collection
archaeological find category
cuneiform tablet corpus
approximateDate 17th century BCE to 12th century BCE
chronologicalRange Late Bronze Age
Middle Hittite period
New Hittite Kingdom
linked to: Neo-Hittite states

Old Hittite Kingdom
linked to: Hittite Empire
composedOf clay tablets
contains administrative texts
cult inventories
diplomatic texts
historical annals
incantations
legal texts
letters
mythological texts
omen texts
religious texts
ritual texts
royal edicts
treaties
discoveredBy archaeologists in the late 19th and 20th centuries
foundAt Boğazköy
Emar
Hattusa
Kültepe
Maşat Höyük
Ortaköy
linked to: Ortaköy

Sapinuwa
Ugarit
includes copy of Egyptian–Hittite peace treaty
language Akkadian language
linked to: Akkadian

Hittite language
linked to: Hittite (Nesite)

Hurrian language
linked to: Hurrian

Luwian language
linked to: Cuneiform Luwian

Sumerian language
mainCenter Hattusa archives
linked to: Hittite archives

Hattusa royal archives
linked to: Hittite archives
material baked clay
preservationMethod firing of clay tablets
scriptType cuneiform script
significance primary source for Hittite history
primary source for Hittite law
primary source for Hittite religion
primary source for Late Bronze Age diplomacy
storedInAntiquityAs administrative archives
palace archives
temple archives
usedBy Hittite Empire
Hittite administration
writingSystem Akkadian cuneiform
Hittite cuneiform
Hurrian cuneiform
Luwian hieroglyphic
Sumerian cuneiform

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Cuneiform Luwian usedIn Hittite archives
Suppiluliuma I source Hittite royal annals
linked to: Hittite archives
Mursili II sourceOfInformation Hittite royal annals
linked to: Hittite archives
Late Bronze Age collapse historicalSource Hittite texts
linked to: Hittite archives
Hittite laws foundIn royal archives of Hattusa
linked to: Hittite archives
Sun goddess of Arinna mentionedIn Hittite treaties
linked to: Hittite archives
Egyptian–Hittite wars documentedBy Hittite cuneiform tablets
linked to: Hittite archives
Palaite attestedIn Hittite archives
Hittite archives mainCenter Hattusa archives
linked to: Hittite archives
Hittite archives mainCenter Hattusa royal archives
linked to: Hittite archives
Karkemish mentionedIn Hittite texts
linked to: Hittite archives
Bedřich Hrozný hasWork Hethitische Keilschrifttafeln aus Boghazköi
linked to: Hittite archives
Hittite royal court documentedIn Hittite cuneiform tablets
linked to: Hittite archives
Hittite royal court documentedIn Hattusa archives
linked to: Hittite archives
Boğazköy hasDiscovery Boğazköy cuneiform tablets
linked to: Hittite archives
Suppiluliuma II attestedIn Boghazkoy archives
linked to: Hittite archives